Watching computer gurus being interviewed about this on the news I got the feeling they were chortling inside. It puts them back in businesss again, after the failure of the Millenium Bug to bring the end of civilisation lost them such a lot of credibility.

Being cynical about such things, I believe we can anticipate that this kind of thing is going to crop up periodically, any time the gurus need a bit of favourable media attention.

Next thing, I imagine, will be variants where the message it sends is more likely to fool people into thinking it's a real message from the person it says it's from - or even some clever gizmo that attaches the attachment to a real message, replacing the attachment that you were meaning to send, the next time you send an attachment...